Dreams are completely influenced by the first impressions of childhood, and often bring out the details of that time, the little things that you will never remember when you wake up, and rehash the old accounts.

- Sigmund Freud, "The Interpretation of Dreams"

With a "ding" sound, the elevator stopped on the 14th floor of a high-rise office building.

Ran Sinian stepped out of the elevator as usual and walked straight towards his office, and when he passed the front desk, he habitually nodded to the girl at the front desk.

It was Monday, and Ran Sinian thought that this Monday would be spent in habitual busyness like countless Mondays in the past, and he didn't expect that Monday to be the beginning of rewriting his future destiny.

Not long after he sat down in the office, assistant Jia Ruofan knocked on the door and came in, and said with a smile: "Morning, Mr. Ran, do you want black tea or coffee?" ”

Ran Sinian replied casually while turning on the computer: "Black tea." ”

"By the way, Mr. Ran, you have an appointment today, it is a lady named Li Wenci, she called three days ago to make an appointment to meet you, as if she was in a hurry, but it was Friday, so I arranged her for today

。 Jia Ruofan reported.

"Okay." Habitually turning on his computer to read the news on industry websites, he has been following the opinions of online professionals and netizens on his dream interpretation therapy.

At nine o'clock in the morning, Jia Ruofan led a woman in her early 30s into Ran Sinian's office with two cups of black tea.

Ran Sinian looked at the female customer Li Wenci in a friendly and careful manner. She has a beautiful appearance, an elegant temperament, and is very decent in dress, speech and demeanor, and it can be seen that she is an educated and intellectual woman with a certain social status. Sure enough, Li Wenci said in her self-introduction that she is a high school teacher, and she is a backbone teacher in a key high school in the city, teaching Chinese.

It's just that a lot of melancholy and confusion gathered between Li Wenci's eyebrows, causing her to look unenergetic. Ran Sinian has become accustomed to this, he is reluctant to call his clients patients, because he himself is only a psychological counselor, not a psychiatric doctor, he only calls them customers, and has been tireless to correct the names of his clients, asking them not to call him Dr. Ran, but the final result is that most of the customers still can't change their habit of calling him Dr. Ran or Teacher Ran.

Through her observation and simple conversations with Li Wenci, Ran Sinian could see that she had done some research before coming here, and knew that this was just a relatively commercial psychological counseling center, and the counselors in it were not psychologists at all. So she called Ran Sinian Mr. Ran from the beginning, and positioned the relationship between her and Ran Sinian accurately.

After introducing herself and admiring the polite words, Li Wenci got to the point, she first took a sip of black tea to moisten her throat, then took a deep breath and said: "For the past week, I have been having a similar dream, a similar nightmare. In the dream, I was a prisoner, imprisoned in a dark space, and all I could see was a fence surrounding me on all sides. I must have just been subjected to a cruel punishment, and my lower limbs were unable to exert force, so that I could only lie on the ground and crawl with the strength of my upper limbs; And, I couldn't speak, I couldn't feel my tongue, no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't say a clear word. When I opened my mouth, hot blood gushed out! Really, it's really horrible! ”

"Did you try to call for help?" Ran Sinian asked gently.

"Of course, I screamed so hard that I made a very piercing sound, but I was scared, afraid that my cry would attract something terrible, so I only screamed a few times, and then I didn't dare to make a sound." Li Wenci's eyes flashed with fear, and as she spoke, she seemed to be immersed in that nightmare again.

"Why do you think screaming attracts terrible things?" Ran Sinian asked seductively.

Li Wenci rubbed his temples and replied while recalling: "Because I heard a scream not far away!" In the darkness I was in, there was a glowing spot not far away, and from the other side of the light source came a terrible scream, both male and female, sounding like the screams of a monster before it died. I think it's the torture chamber, and the brutal torture is going on there! I was terrified to the extreme, and then, and then I woke up. ”

While speaking with an understanding demeanor and a gentle tone, Ran Sinian calmed Li Wenci's emotions and expressed his sense of identity, while secretly thinking about the meaning of this dream.

"You said you had a lot of similar dreams in a week, can you tell me about the differences in some of your dreams?"

Li Wenci lowered his head and pondered, and only spoke after half a minute, "What impressed me the most was the ones I just talked about, which were almost repeated every night, and there were some small details that I don't remember very clearly, because they only appeared once and were not repeated. I remember that there were times when I was lying on my back and looking up, I could see planes in the dark night sky, and sometimes the prison I was in seemed to be floating, and when I looked down, I could faintly see the sea and the dolphins inside. By the way, I also seem to have seen uniformed guards of honor beating drums, and monkeys jumping up and down in the jungle. ”

The more Li Wenci spoke, the more incredible he felt, because these things sounded unrelated and imaginative, but Ran Sinian's slightly furrowed brows slowly relaxed, as if these contents were exactly what he wanted to hear.

"Ms. Li, you said you started having this similar dream a week ago?" Ran Sinian asked

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"It should have started ten days ago, to be exact." Li Wenci replied.

"Then please think carefully about what happened in your life ten days ago, that is, the day before you first had this dream, or the last two or three days," Ran Sinian said very seriously, "We must first find out what triggered this dream of yours. ”

Li Wenci sighed, "I have also thought about this problem, there must be a reason for the incident, but no matter how I think about it, I can't think of a reason." If I had to say that there was anything different in my life ten days ago, it would be only one thing, and that was eleven days ago, which happened to be my wedding anniversary with my lover. That night, the two of us had a candlelit dinner together in the restaurant, and the whole thing was pleasant and homely. ”

Ran Sinian was a little disappointed, "This is a bit complicated, it is very likely that what triggers your dream is a certain detail in that restaurant, or a certain detail on a certain customer, or a certain dish, a certain tableware, etc." ”

"Wouldn't it? I often go to that restaurant with my lover, and I think about it, there was nothing special about it. Li Wenci looked puzzled and told Ran Sinian that she had done her best to analyze and think about her dream and the reason for triggering it before she came.

Ran Sinian shook his head meaningfully and explained: "What triggers your dream may not be a single point, but a line that connects several points together. And that night's candlelight dinner, by chance, gathered all the key points, and finally connected them into a line, touching a certain mechanism hidden deep in your subconscious, so that you began to have almost the same dreams in a row. ”

Li Wenci immediately understood what Ran Sinian meant, and he was also quite disappointed, "In this way, it seems that it is very difficult to figure out this line that triggers the dream." ”

Ran Sinian suddenly broke away from the mood of loss, smiled and waved his hand and said, "You don't have to be depressed, in fact, I already have some thoughts about this dream itself. ”

"Oh? Do you decipher the deeper meaning of this dream? Li Wenci asked hopefully, "Should this dream be, should it be a vague indication that I suspect that my lover is having an affair?" Truth be told, that's what worries me the most. Or could it be that my subconscious mind realized that he was on a very dangerous mission? Oh, I'm sorry, I'm so anxious. ”

Ran Sinian smiled and shook his head to show that he didn't mind, and asked, "Very dangerous mission?" Could it be that your lover is a police officer? ”

Li Wenci smiled embarrassedly, but said with some pride: "Yes, my lover is a criminal police captain. Oh, Mr. Ran, I'm sorry, I'm off topic, so please interpret my dream. ”

Ran Sinian took a deep breath and said, "I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint you, in my opinion, this dream of yours has nothing to do with your lover." I think this dream of yours is recreating memories of your infancy. ”

"What?" Li Wenci craned his neck and asked as if he didn't understand.

Ran Sinian patiently explained: "Human memory begins in infancy. Although we adults can only trace the memories of the bait period, this does not mean that the memories of infancy have completely disappeared. Many times, some special memories have not disappeared, but are buried deeply, buried in the bottomless subconscious. And dreams, dreams of adults, even dreams of childhood, are one of the ways to tap into this deeply buried memory of a baby, and it should be said that it is the most effective way. Of course, this is not my opinion, but Freud's view in this book, and I am very convinced of it. ”

Li Wenci asked in disbelief: "Then Mr. Ran, why do you think that this dream of mine, this terrible nightmare, is a memory of infancy?" ”

Ran Sinian originally wanted to modestly show that this was just his personal speculation, but because of his habitual self-confidence, his modesty also seemed very insincere, he said: "It is not appropriate to say that it is confirmed, because I am not 100% sure, but I am 90% sure." In fact, this is just a conjecture based on my professional theoretical knowledge and experience, and there is no guarantee that it is correct. How to verify it depends on your cooperation in the future, not only with the honest answer to my question, but also with the cooperation of a series of dream interpretation therapy, only in this way can we follow the clues of this dream all the way to explore and find the answer. ”